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degree in nursing from the Washington
Adventist University in Takoma Park,
Maryland, and will later work at the
Children’s National Medical Center in
Washington, D.C.
Paige Maas
joined BB as
a predoctoral
fellow. Ms.
Maas graduated
from Pomona
College in
Claremont,
California,
Paige Maas
with a B.A. in
applied mathematics, and she is currently
a second-year doctoral student
in the Biostatistics Department at Johns
Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public
Health in Baltimore, Maryland. She will
be working with nilanjan Chatterjee,
Ph.D., Chief of BB, and Mitchell h.
Gail, M.D., Ph.D. (BB), on developing
absolute-risk models for specific breast
cancer subtypes.
Carl McCabe,
Ph.D., joined
the Office
of Division
Operations
and Analysis
as a scientific
program
specialist. Dr.
Carl McCabe
McCabe will
serve as the lead project officer on the
Biomedical Computing Support contract,
currently held by Information
Management Services, Inc. He will
also serve as administrator of DCEG’s
Internet presence (both internal and
public facing) and will lead the management
of scientific data integration
for the Division. Dr. McCabe received
his Ph.D. in anthropology from the
University of California, Davis. His
doctoral work included ethnographic
fieldwork in Beijing, China, and software
development for lab-based social science
experiments in California. He came
to NIH as a Presidential Management
Fellow in 2009, where he worked in the
NIH Office of the Director, Office of
Extramural Research.
Victoria A.
McCallum,
M.P.h., joined
OCSI as a
technical writer
and editor.
She received
her M.P.H.
in epidemi-
Victoria McCallum
ology from
Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia,
before joining NCI as a Presidential
Management Fellow, where she had
rotations in science communications,
public health genomics, and congressional
affairs. She will work with Wendy
schneider-Levinson (OCSI) as a
writer and editor for DCEG Linkage. In
addition, Ms. McCallum will manage
and prepare reports on the Division’s
research portfolio, update website
content, and provide support for other
communications activities.
Idan Menashe, Ph.D., left BB to
work as a bioinformatics scientist with
MindSpec, Inc., a nonprofit organization
in McLean, Virginia, that uses innovative
bioinformatics strategies to accelerate
research on common neurodevelopmental
disorders.
Bridgett
Rahim-
Williams,
Ph.D., joined
IIB as a fellow
from
the National
Institute on
Minority
Bridgett Rahim-Williams
Health and
Health Disparities. She received a Ph.D.
in applied biomedical anthropology
from the University of South Florida
30
in Tampa. While at IIB, Dr. Rahim-
Williams will conduct research on
Burkitt lymphoma under the mentorship
of sam M. Mbulaiteye, M.D.
helen Reed,
M.P.h.,
joined CGB
as a CRTA
Fellow after
receiving her
M.P.H. from
the University
of California,
Helen Reed
Berkeley. Her
thesis analyzed the association between
herbicides in house dust and the risk of
childhood leukemia. Ms. Reed will be
working with Blanche P. Alter, M.D.,
M.P.h. (CGB), on the Inherited Bone
Marrow Failure Syndromes Cohort
Study and with Douglas stewart, M.D.
(CGB), on tumors associated with neurofibromatosis
type 1.
Linda Ross retired in June after six years
of service as an administrative officer in
the DCEG ARC and a total of 30 years of
government service. She will be spending
time at her beach home in Myrtle
Beach, South Carolina.
Fatma shebl, M.D., Ph.D., left IIB to
become an assistant professor in chronic
disease epidemiology at Yale University
in New Haven, Connecticut.
Abbey
Thompson
joined LTG
as a postbaccalaureate
fellow under
the mentorship
of Laufey
Amundadottir,
Abbey Thompson
Ph.D. Ms.
Thompson obtained her B.S. in molecular
biology at Northwestern University
in Evanston, Illinois. In LTG, she will be
working on functional characterization